SIGGRAPH-ASIA

This course introduces and defines augmented reality and user interfaces that can apply AR to enhance users' perceptions of reality.

The goal of scattered data interpolation techniques is to construct a (typically smooth) function from a set of unorganized samples. These techniques have a wide range of applications in computer graphics. For instance they can be used to model a ...

The representation of spatial data is an important issue in game programming, computer graphics, visualization, solid modeling, and related areas including computer vision and geographic information systems (GIS). Many representations are currently ...

Data-driven animation using motion capture data has become a standard practice in character animation. A number of techniques have been developed to add flexibility on captured human motion data by editing joint trajectories, warping motion paths, ...

Computational photography is based on capturing and processing discrete representations of all the light rays in the 3D space of a scene. Compared to conventional photography, which captures 2D images, computational photography captures the entire 4D '...

As real time graphics aspires to movie-quality rendering, higher order, smooth surface representations take center stage. Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces are the dominant higher-order surface type used in feature films as they can model surfaces of ...

An Intro to RenderMan and Procedural Shading in Pixar's RenderMan Studio (for geeks and artists)

Proceduralism is a powerful concept in computer graphics. It facilitates scenes of enormous scale, exquisite varieties of detail, and impressive efficiency. ...

There are strong indications that the future of interactive graphics involves a more flexible programming model than today's OpenGL/Direct3D pipelines. That means that graphics developers will need a basic understanding of how to combine emerging ...

Compared with console games, online games have unique characteristics that require more complicated design of software architecture. This course delivers state-of-the-art technologies for making online games from clients to servers. Topics include ...

Crowds and groups are a vital element of life, and simulating them in a convincing manner is one of the great challenges in computer graphics and interactive techniques. This course focuses on the problem of efficiently simulating realistic crowd and ...

Due to advances in digital audio technologies, computers now play a role in most music production and performance. Digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for creation and manipulation of sound, but the flexibilty of these new ...

This course examines the purposes and value of stories and storytelling as they relate to the classical story structure. The role of genres and cliches is examined as they relate to storytelling. The top five storytelling techniques are presented in ...

Commercial stereoscopic displays have reemerged in the consumer market within the last few years. Today, film studios routinely produce live-action and animated 3D content for theatrical release. While primarily enabled by the widespread adoption of ...

This course explains the various components of DirectX 11, such as direct compute, tessellation, multi-threaded command buffers, dynamic shader linking, new texture-compression formats, read-only depth, conservative oDepth, etc.

Blizzard Entertainment will explore the creation of the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sequences, and the challenges the Blizzard Film Department faced in making them. The viewer will have insight into some of the techniques used by this group of ...

OpenGL is the most widely available library for creating interactive computer graphics applications across all of the major computer operating systems. Its uses range from creating applications for scientific visualizations to computer-aided design, ...

This course introduces how simulations have used flesh mesh, cloth mesh, and rigid bodies in VFX movies such as "Avatar", "Terminator", "Indiana Jones", and "Transformer". The main focus is on how CG artists plan the simulation setup to achieve ...

This course is intended for instructing students and practitioners on recent developments related to collision and proximity computations for interactive games and simulations.

There have been significant advances in various physics-based simulation ...

Temporal coherence (TC), the correlation of contents between adjacent rendered frames, exists across a wide range of scenes and motion types in practical real-time rendering. By taking advantage of TC, we can save redundant computation and improve the ...